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Local Leaders and mayors call for power shift to meet net zero

Envirotec Magazine

Ensuring the new UK Infrastructure Bank has a Net Zero mandate to deliver local investment in Net Zero projects. The above measures would be facilitated by a new Net Zero Local Powers Bill to cement new powers for local and regional authorities alongside new reporting requirements on emissions.

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White vans go green: Half a million builders and plumbers needed to reach Net Zero

Envirotec Magazine

The finance should be predominantly met from the private sector with the Treasury pump-priming £5bn via a Net Zero Development Bank.[1]. The UK Green Building Council has estimated that to achieve Net Zero carbon by 2050, we will need to improve almost all of the UK’s 29 million homes, meaning we need to retrofit more than 1.8